Размер: 178 x 108Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)Поставляется из: АнглииОписание: Two thrillers from the author of `DAY OF RECKONING`.Дополнительное описание: Imprint: Time Warner BooksFormat: A

Автор: Katzenbach JНазвание: State of MindISBN: 0751523194 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780751523195Издательство: Little, BrownЦена: 493 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: A new state is forming in America, carving out land across other state boundaries to form a secure sanctuary for the law-abiding who have lost the fight against the spiralling crime and decadence of the late 20th century. Known to the authorities but not to the populace, a serial killer has managed to by-pass the strict controls and is operating anonymously in the supposed new Utopia. His modus operandi is recognised from similar, but 20-year-old killings elsewhere and there is only one thing which will entrap him - his own family who were the only people to escape fromm. His son agrees to form part of the bait, but before he does he has to confront the knowledge that he was fathered by a monster and also decide whether if he had to, he would be able to kill his own parents.

Описание: It's been twenty years since Western State Hospital was closed down and the last of its inmates reintegrated into society. Francis Petrel was barely out of his teens when his family committed him to the asylum, after his erratic behavior culminated in a terrifying outburst. Now middle-aged, he leads an aimless, solitary life housed in a cheap apartment, periodically tended to by his sisters, and perpetually medicated to quiet the chorus of voices in his head. But a reunion on the grounds of the shuttered institution stirs something deep in Francis's troubled mind: dark memories he thought he had laid to rest, about the grisly events that led to Western State Hospital's demise. It begins in 1979, when twenty-one-year-old Petrel descends into the state-run purgatory of an overcrowded, understaffed Massachusetts mental hospital. Surrounded by inmates roaming the halls like drugged zombies and raving behind locked doors, well-meaning orderlies, jaded nurses, and patronizing doctors, Francis finds friendship with a motley assortment of fellow patients: a would-be Napoleon, a wise ex-firefighter, and a man obsessed with battling imagined devils. But there's nothing imaginary about the young nurse found sexually assaulted and brutally murdered late one night after lights-out. The police suspect an inmate, while patients whisper about visions of a white-shrouded "angel." But the striking and mysterious prosecuting attorney who arrives to investigate has her own chilling theory--about the grim, telltale "signature" left on the victim's body, a string of unsolved sex killings, and a very real devil who, by chance or design, has come to turn a madhouse into a slaughterhouse. Now, with the past creeping back to haunt his thoughts, and nothing but a pencil and the bare walls of his bleak apartment, Francis surrenders to the overwhelming need to tell the story of those nightmarish days. But because the crime was never solved, it's a story doomed to remain unfinished. Until, like Francis's long-buried recollections, the killer resurfaces . . . with a vengeance. A tour de force narrative journey through the eerily unpredictable mind of an utterly unusual hero, The Madman's Tale will keep even the most astute thriller reader uncertain, unnerved, and unable to resist the tantalizing twists and turns of this fiendishly suspenseful shadow show.

Описание: Second Lieutenant Tommy Hart, a navigator whose B-25 was shot out of the sky in 1942, is burdened with guilt as the only surviving member of his crew. Now he is just another POW at the fiercely guarded Stalag Luft 13 in Bavaria.

Then routine comes to a halt with the arrival of a new prisoner: First Lieutenant Lincoln Scott, an African American Tuskegee airman who instantly becomes the target of contempt from his fellow soldiers. When a prisoner is brutally murdered, and all the blood-soaked evidence points to Scott, Hart is tapped to defend the soldier. In a trial rife with racial tension and raw conflict, where the lines between ally and enemy blur, there are those with their own secret motives, and a burning passion for a rush to judgment, no matter what the cost.

Описание: When the body of a young female nurse is found horribly murdered in the Western State Mental Hospital, Massachusetts, there is apparently no shortage of suspects - a whole hospital of them. But she, and Francis, face the same conundrum: how does one find a cold blooded killer masquerading as mad in a world populated by the deranged?

Описание: "Happy 53rd birthday. Welcome to the first day of your death." Until he opens the letter, New York psychologist Frederick Starks has led a quiet and, so he believes, blameless life, but suddenly someone who believes Starks ruined his life threatens him with a systematic trail of butchery.

Описание: When the body of a young female trainee is found horribly murdered at the Western State Mental Hospital, there is apparently no shortage of suspects. One inmate claims to have seen the killer who he will only describe as the Angel.